Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-4115

Title: Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-4115.

CWE Category CWE-400
Published Date Feb 21, 2022
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-4115: There is a flaw in polkit which can allow an unprivileged user to cause polkit to crash, due to process file descriptor exhaustion. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to availability. NOTE: Polkit process outage duration is tied to the failing process being reaped and a new one being spawned

Impacted Vendors

F
freedesktop 1
O
oracle 1
P
polkit_project 1

Reference Links

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115 https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/ https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172849/polkit-File-Descriptor-Exhaustion.html https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4115 https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/polkit/-/merge_requests/6/diffs?commit_id=bf900df04dc390d389e59aa10942b0f2b15c531e https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/141 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VGKWCBS6IDZYYDYM2WIWJM5BL7QQTWPF/ https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.5
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-4115 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.